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Grindr

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64 articles accelerating

Grindr has appeared in 64 articles since 2015-05. Coverage peaked in 2024Q1 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Bumble, Chinese, Twitter, China.

Articles
64
mentions
Velocity
+200.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+2.000
velocity change
Sources
26
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-02-25
Bloomberg 6 related

Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation

Malaysia has blocked access to LGBTQ+ networking and dating sites Grindr and Blued, with authorities reviewing legal measures …

2023-10-25
Rest of World 1 related

Blued, China's largest gay dating app, plans to expand to Southeast Asia and the US in a bid to take on Grindr, while facing censorship and competition in China

Rest of World : X: @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , and @danreast X: Viola Zhou / @violazhouyi : Blued is looking to compete with Grindr and others by offering social funct...

2022-08-03
TechCrunch 3 related

A CJEU ruling in a Lithuanian case involving the use of sensitive personal data could have implications for online services that use background tracking for ads

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 1 August 2022 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling … Tweets: Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna / @gabrielazanfir : Very significant judgment today from the #CJEU Gra...

2022-06-16
Rest of World 1 related

After Pakistan banned dating apps Tinder, Grindr, and Skout in September 2020, Facebook matchmaking groups for Pakistanis gained tens of thousands of members

that these Facebook dating groups are an absolute revolution in a society like Pakistan: https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Facebook groups are a “hybrid version” of matchmaking for Pakistani ...

2022-01-31
Bloomberg 7 related

Gay dating app Grindr disappears from Apple's App Store in China as well as Tencent's and Huawei's Android app stores

Grindr, a popular gay dating app, has been removed from Apple Inc.'s App Store in China, days after Beijing said it was going to renew its campaign to police online content.

2020-08-02
CNBC 48 related

President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States

and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...

2020-06-27
VICE 1 related

Grindr continues to allow users to filter others by ethnicity, nearly a month after pledging to remove its ethnicity filter in support of Black Lives Matter

Kevin Truong / VICE :

2020-01-15
Ad Age

Twitter suspends Grindr from its ad platform as it investigates report that the dating app shared sensitive data with ad tech partners including Twitter's MoPub

Garett Sloane / Ad Age : Tweets: @thezedwards Tweets: @thezedwards : It's great to see Twitter taking action to remove Grindr from their Mopub ads platform ( https://adage.com/... ) but that's not re...

2019-05-26
Reuters

Sources: Grindr owner Beijing Kunlun's decision to give some engineers in Beijing access to users' data prompted US officials to require the firm to sell Grindr

(Reuters) - Early last year, Grindr LLC's Chinese owner gave some Beijing-based engineers access to personal information … Tweets: @isaacstonefish Tweets: Isaac Stone Fish / @isaacstonefish : Why is G...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 61 Techmeme articles mentioning Grindr, dating back to May 2015. The biggest stories include Report: some apps using Facebook's SDK, like Grindr and Bible+, send user info to... and Grindr's security chief Bryce Case says company has been unfairly singled out and that it.... Frequently covered alongside Bumble, Beijing Kunlun Tech, SPAC, George Arison, and Reuters. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise, consumer themes and away from developer, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +33pts; safety +33pts; consumer +50pts
2024Q3enterprise -33pts; safety -33pts; developer +67pts
2024Q4developer -67pts; research -33pts

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